Definition of Companion

1. Noun. A friend who is frequently in the company of another. "Comrades in arms"

Exact synonyms: Associate, Comrade, Familiar, Fellow
Specialized synonyms: Date, Escort, Playfellow, Playmate, Tovarich, Tovarisch
Generic synonyms: Friend
Derivative terms: Associate, Companionship, Comradely, Comradeship, Familiar, Fellowship

2. Verb. Be a companion to somebody.
Exact synonyms: Accompany, Company, Keep Company
Generic synonyms: Affiliate, Associate, Assort, Consort
Derivative terms: Accompaniment, Company

3. Noun. A traveler who accompanies you.
Exact synonyms: Fellow Traveler, Fellow Traveller
Generic synonyms: Traveler, Traveller
Derivative terms: Companionship

4. Noun. One paid to accompany or assist or live with another.
Generic synonyms: Attendant, Attender, Tender

Definition of Companion

1. n. One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.

2. v. t. To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.

Definition of Companion

1. Noun. A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company ¹

2. Noun. (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another. ¹

3. Noun. (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below. ¹

4. Noun. (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves. ¹

5. Noun. (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk. ¹

6. Noun. (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person. ¹

7. Noun. (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another. ¹

8. Verb. (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany. ¹

9. Verb. (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Companion

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Companion

companaje
compand
companded
compander
companders
companding
compandings
compandor
compandors
compands
compane
companiable
companie
companied
companies
companion (current term)
companion animal
companion artery to sciatic nerve
companion cell
companion ladder
companion ladders
companion lymph nodes of accessory nerve
companion vein
companionability
companionable
companionableness
companionably
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companionate marriage
companioned

Literary usage of Companion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"What cautions Christian and his companion had received of the Shepherds, they had also lost by that the time was come that they had need to put them in ..."

2. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"companion of misery a friar of the ... an excellent companion ; but, from the point of view of his religion, I found him the biggest scoundrel in the world, ..."

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